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THE HISTORY OF DOCUMENTARY IN AFRICA
THE COLONIAL ERA
by
Aboubakar Sidiki Sanogo
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(CRITICAL STUDIES)
December 2009
Copyright 2009 Aboubakar Sidiki Sanogo
Object Description
| Title | The history of documentary in Africa -- The Colonial era |
| Author | Sanogo, Aboubakar Sidiki |
| Author email | sanogo@usc.edu; aboubakar_sanogo@carleton.ca |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Cinema-Television (Critical Studies) |
| School | School of Cinematic Arts |
| Date defended/completed | 2009-05-05 |
| Date submitted | 2009 |
| Restricted until | Restricted until 05 Dec. 2011. |
| Date published | 2011-12-05 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Kinder, Marsha |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Renov, Michael Jaikumar, Priya Norindr, Panivong |
| Abstract | This thesis seeks to write a comprehensive history of documentary film in Africa, from the beginning of the cinema until the eve of independence in the late 1950s. It looks at documentary practice and theory as deployed in and on the African continent during the colonial era, covering the early, silent, and sound eras. Focusing on the British and French colonial empires, the thesis attempts to produce both an archeology and epistemology of documentary film in the period covered in Africa. Using textual analysis, historical contextualization, and symptomatic readings, the thesis explores the nature, character and features of the relationship between documentary and colonialism in an attempt to answer the question as to whether documentary film today carries within it aspects of the episteme of colonialism.; Among other things, the thesis examines the work and trajectories of some of the canonical figures and moments in the history of the documentary, from the Lumière brothers to the British documentary movement, and casts new perspectives on them. By looking at them through the lens of the colonial, the thesis interrogates many of the orthodoxies of the discipline, ranging from theories and histories of early cinema, to consensual representations of the Griersonians, to attempts at theorization of documentary itself, especially in its early period.; The thesis also brings into the film studies discourse new paradigms in the discussion of the history of cinema, and thus of documentary in Africa through an examination of the often neglected yet highly polysemic nineteenth century. This line of inquiry brings forth the staging of a space of agency for African continent throughout the colonial period until its end. This makes it possible to begin a re-examination of the history of documentary with Africa as a point of departure, and demonstrates that such an approach is theoretically fruitful, historically desirable and temporally overdue. |
| Keyword | history; documentary; Africa; colonialism; early cinema; Lumiere brothers; nineteenth century; Berlin Conference; British colonial cinema; French colonial cinema; Pan-Africanism; World War I and II; Presence Africaine |
| Geographic coordinates | Africa |
| Coverage date | circa 1880/1980 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m2786 |
| Rights | Sanogo, Aboubakar Sidiki |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Sanogo-2933 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume23/etd-Sanogo-2933.pdf |
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| Full text | THE HISTORY OF DOCUMENTARY IN AFRICA THE COLONIAL ERA by Aboubakar Sidiki Sanogo A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (CRITICAL STUDIES) December 2009 Copyright 2009 Aboubakar Sidiki Sanogo |
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